On 13-Oct-99, 16:41 (CDT), Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> wrote:
> I seek advice on the following apparent problem in the latest potato:
>
> Problem: if you suspend your laptop for more than 3 hours, cron
> ignores any jobs scheduled during the interval. Therefore if, for
> example, you suspend each night and start work around 10, your 0730
> anacron invocation will never run. Nor will your 0342 dlocate db
> update.
For what it's worth, I've got two different cron patches that allow
one to indicate that a particular job should be "caught up" in this
situation.
Steve
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